Finally out of the bay and in North Carolina

October 16^th, 2011, Sun.

We left Dozier’s in Deltaville, Va. finally after a week of meeting some very nice people. We hope to see them again in our travels. Susan & Chris from Forever Friday, who we met  watching Dancing with the Stars in the marina lounge are leaving Monday, so I’m sure we’ll meet up with them  along the way. Sarah & Brooks from Our Time are headed to DC and then down the ICW and will be going right by the condo on they’re way to the west coast of Florida, so hopefully we’ll catch up again also.

We had the water heater fixed on Thursday, but decided to wait for the rain, then the winds to calm from 20 to 25 and 3’ to 4’ seas. We had about 1’ to 2’ seas when we left, but then at Mobjack Bay and York River we had some 3’ to 4’ seas. It was like being in a washing machine, waves all different directions. We did have the tide with us, so we made good time, averaging 9 knots. When we got to Tidewater marina in Portsmouth, Va. we walked into town. It was nice with some historic homes and restaurants, etc. We got back to the boat and I wasn’t feeling well, so we had a so called dinner on board. Bob had Hot dogs and Beans, YUK. I had soft boiled eggs. HAHAHA

October 17^th, 2011, Mon

I’m still not feeling well, stomach cramps, so we decided to go to Atlantic Yacht Basin in Great Bridge, Va. just 12 miles, but we had 3 bridges and one lock. The bridges are closed from 6:30 am to 9:30 am and then 2 open on the hour and half hour and the one after the lock opens only on the hour. They also only lock boats through southbound on the half hour and northbound on the hour. So this takes some planning. We did good, we got the 10:30 opening on the first bridge and got to Atlantic Yacht Basin by noon. All I wanted to do was sleep. Hopefully tomorrow’s a better day.

October 18^th, 2011, Tues.

Feeling better today, at least I feel like I have a little energy, but still have stomach cramps. We decided to go to Coinjock N.C. There’s also a front coming again with rain and winds and we’ll probably hang here a couple days, cause next we’ll be crossing the Abemarle  and Alligator river, which are not friendly in higher winds. We learned this on other trips. Forever Friday pulled in also and we had dinner at the restaurant, then watched Dancing with the Stars eliminations on they’re boat. A fun night! We’ve only gone approximately 216 miles since leaving Knapps Narrows, including our trip to Annapolis with Fred and Ginny, still have 930 miles to go. We’re still early compared to when we left with Banshee, but probably we’ll start doing some longer runs when we leave here. We got the insurance changed and we can go as far as St. Mary’s, Ga. before Nov 1^st. which is a lot better than Hatteras.